How to hide administrator name

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Rosivaldo Fernandes Alves

In order to improve security, it is possible to rename Administrator account
in an Windows XP system. But everytime a user choose "Run as.." to open an
application, the (renamed) name of the administrator is shown to her/him. Is
there a way to prevent this?

TIA,

Rosivaldo.
 
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Rosivaldo Fernandes Alves said:
In order to improve security, it is possible to rename Administrator
account in an Windows XP system. But everytime a user choose "Run
as.." to open an application, the (renamed) name of the administrator
is shown to her/him. Is there a way to prevent this?

TIA,

Rosivaldo.
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Renaming an account isn't a very good way to secure anything. It adds maybe
two seconds to the time it takes someone to crack the system. [1] The real
question is, do these users know the password? And why are users choosing
RunAs anyway?


[1] I completely made that number up, but I'm not far off.
 
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